Ancient promotion routine

"I suggest you hire a few more people, especially managers. If you come to be the shopkeeper yourself, I'm afraid your father will not be happy."

Zhang Yanjin thought for a while and said to Li Ying. .

Li Ying heard Zhang Yanjin's words and said quickly: "Don't worry, I have my own concerns about these things. If you leave the restaurant to me, I will naturally take care of the restaurant with all my heart. If there is any problem at that time, I will go to you by myself." Get punished!"

Zhang Yanjin patted him on the shoulder, which was considered as a temporary practice for Li Ying. When he knew what he was good at, and his postmaster was on the right track, so that he could speak one word, he would naturally be able to transfer people over.

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The matter of Chen Guogong's mansion was settled. After Zhou Qihui joined the job, Zhang Yanjin sent someone to watch him, and found that he was very honest and still doing practical things, which made Zhang Yanjin puzzled.

However, it is best not to cause trouble, and it will also allow the Post Road Division to get on the right track as soon as possible.

Zhang Yanjin was really busy these days. The Post Road Division was making preparations and building roads at the same time. Zhang Yanjin went out almost at dawn, and didn't go back until midnight.He also had to be distracted by the official affairs from Zhongzhou and Datong, and at the same time, he was also cooperating with all the etiquette before the marriage between Zhao Guogong and Ningguo Gongfu.

Perhaps because of being so busy, Zhang Yanjin's fear of getting married almost dissipated.

On this day, Zhang Yanjin sent Ying to Zhao Guogong's mansion early in the morning, and stayed with the 'father-in-law' and 'mother-in-law' for two hours, but he still didn't see Li Rongniang. He was relieved but also a little disappointed.

Before returning home, a little girl suddenly ran out of the corner gate.

"Zhang Erlang!"

Zhang Yanjin turned around, and the little girl ran over briskly, stuffed him with a letter, and said with a smile: "My wife asked me to give it to you."

Zhao Guogong has no daughter, so the only lady mentioned here is naturally the adopted daughter Li Rongniang.

Zhang Yanjin quickly took it over, feeling a little nervous in her heart.

"She... is in the mansion, but is she okay?"

The little girl was still grinning: "My lady is very happy these days. Since... Zhang Erlang, you rejected the princess, my lady is obviously much happier than before."

This obviously didn't say anything, but it also made Zhang Erlang blush and heartbeat.

"Okay, I won't stay any longer, the lady is still waiting for the slave to go back and answer?"

Zhang Yanjin nodded quickly.

As soon as the little girl left, Ruifu raised his neck to look at the letter in Zhang Yanjin's hand. Zhang Yanjin quickly put it in his arms, and then got on the horse neatly: "Let's go back to the house."

Ruifu and Zhang Wuyi at the back glanced at each other, but they all laughed secretly and didn't speak.

Zhang Yanjin, who was galloping right away, was very itchy. He wanted to see what Li Rongniang had written to him, but he felt that the letters next to his body were all warm. He felt a little regretful that he had deliberately behaved in front of Ruifu and others.

Seeing a teahouse in front of him, he said, "Stop, go drink a pot of tea."

Ruifu was a little puzzled, it was just a tea stall, and it made the tea soup that Erlang hated the most, not the fried tea made by Erlang.

However, even after Zhang Yanjin got off the horse, as soon as he sat down, he didn't order tea, but took out the letter.

Ruifu finally understood, lowered his head and kept laughing provocatively, Zhang Yanjin didn't bother to pay attention to him, he opened the letter, and the first thing he saw was the extremely beautiful handwriting.

The king is a rock, the concubine is a pampas grass, the pampas grass is like silk, and the rock has no transfer.

The corners of Zhang Yanjin's lips curled up involuntarily.

"Erlang, what did Mrs. Li write to you?"

Zhang Yanjin put it away in an instant, and put on a face: "Go back after drinking tea, busy with things, don't think about things that have nothing to do with you."

It made the guards behind laugh secretly.

***

After Zhang Yanjin established the Post Road Division, the next road should be to build the road to the cement factory to facilitate the transportation of goods in the future, or continue to build it in the capital to expand the influence of the cement road and let more people know the benefits of the cement road.

While looking at the map and analyzing it, Ruifu reported that Chen Su was coming, Zhang Yanjin asked someone to come in, but Chen Su rushed in in a hurry.

"What's wrong with Zhang Yanjin! This batch of cement was robbed by a group of bandits before it was transported into the city!"

"?" Zhang Yanjin's face darkened immediately after hearing the news, and then calmed down.

"Bandits robbing cement?" Zhang Yanjin frowned and glanced at Chen Su, "Did you catch one or two?"

Chen Su said anxiously: "How could it be? At that time you said that cement is heavy and worthless, so we didn't bring many people to transport it back and forth, otherwise we wouldn't be robbed! Those bandits That’s 30 people, all speaking the dialect of the Central Plains, to be honest, I didn’t understand what they said at all, and the cement was robbed!”

The more Chen Su thought about it, the more depressed he became. These days, he has worked hard in the wind and rain, but his hard work was not in vain. Now his prestige as Yuanwailang is very high among the road construction workers and the cement factory. , The workers were in awe when they saw him, which also gave him a different sense of accomplishment.

Just a few days ago, Chen Derang talked to him and praised him severely, which made Chen Su feel better than eating honey. If you say that he has always been in the eyes of his father since he was a child Prodigal son!

But when he was at his happiest, the cement was robbed. This damned bandit can't tear it down like this!

"Zhang Yanjin, tell me, you can't eat or drink cement, and you can't sell it for money. What are the bandits doing when they rob the cement? Could it be that they also went to the cottage to build roads and bridges?"

Chen Su slapped his thigh and said, "Could it be someone guessed it!"

"Well," Zhang Yanjin nodded, he had already thought of this, but even if it can be confirmed that someone did it on purpose, it is useless, this group of people must be caught to recover the loss.

"The cement on the construction site is not tight now, is it?"

Chen Su scratched his head and said, "You went to the construction site the day before yesterday to give out a wave of rewards. Now the workers are too motivated. I guess the current cement is enough for a day or two at most..."

"The timing is so accurate?" Zhang Yanjin frowned. "It happened to be robbed by my dad's cement at this juncture, it seems that there must be an inner ghost!"

"The ghost? Ma De, it can't be Zhou Qihui! I'm going to find him now!" Chen Su rolled up his sleeves and was about to question Zhou Qihui, but was stopped by Zhang Yanjin.

"Don't get excited, call Zhou Qihui here, I want to ask him face to face."

"What are you asking? It must be that this kid has not run away. At the beginning, Rui Guogong installed this kid in our Post Road Department to destroy it. I will take the workers to surround this kid and see if he dares to say something about cement. whereabouts!"

"Everyone says don't get excited. Let's not talk about whether Zhou Qihui is playing tricks. Even if it is him, he will definitely not admit it. If there is no proper arrangement, do you think he dares to do this? Then you won't be able to ask him. He is biting back. Take a bite, and I'll see what you do!"

When Chen Su heard this, he became a little dizzy.But at this moment, Zhang Wuyi's voice came from outside the room.

"Master Zhang, just now a servant sent a letter, it's yours!"

As he said that, Zhang Wuyi strode into the room, holding a white envelope in his hand, which read:

"Zhang Yanjin personally."

Zhang Yanjin was taken aback for a moment, already having a bad feeling in her heart, she took the letter and read it, as expected.

"If you want cement, come to Xiangyun Mountain to redeem it. 10 taels of silver is a lot!"

Seeing that Zhang Yanjin was in a daze, Chen Su quickly took the trust to look at it, it doesn't matter if he looks at it, he will be angry immediately!

"It turned out that the ticket was kidnapped and brought to us. Zhang Yanjin, I will go to Zhao Guogong and bring someone to bring this bird to Xiangyun Mountain!"

Zhang Yanjin was actually a little annoyed now, but not to the point where Chen Su was so impulsive. Since the other party dared to tell him where he was hiding, he was obviously not afraid to lead his troops to attack.

"Where is this Xiangyun Mountain?" Zhang Yanjin turned around and asked Zhang Wuyi.

"Xiangyun Mountain?" Zhang Wuyi was stunned, because he didn't read the contents of the letter, and said in a dull voice: "Xiangyun Mountain should be a barren hill to the west of the capital. The terrain is steep and no one lives at all."

"That's it..." Zhang Yanjin thought about it for a while and began to worry.

"Chen Su, you go and call Zhou Qihui for me, Zhang Wuyi, you go to Zhao Guogong to borrow soldiers, and another one, ask Ruifu to prepare a sedan chair for me, I want to enter the palace to face the saint!"

Zhang Yanjin issued three orders at once, and Chen Su and Zhang Wuyi all took the orders to go, but at this time Zhang Yanjin was thinking, no matter how stupid Duke Rui is, he shouldn't cause trouble for himself at this time, but this sudden appearance Who is behind the scenes?

……

At this time, Zhou Qihui was taking a comfortable bath in a big wooden bucket in the Ruiguo mansion.

"It's really unlucky. What kind of errand did my father find for me this time? Escorting cement to and from other places, and no worker waited for him, Yuanwailang, all the time, so why the fuck did he go to flatter Chen Su? Now, what is Chen Su, is his father comparable to that Chen Derang?"

Zhou Qihui rubbed the mud vigorously, wanting to peel off the skin and replace it with a new one. When did Zhou Zhoulang suffer this kind of pain? Although he didn't need to move the cement himself, the cement sticks to his body. A thick shell is really uncomfortable!

Zhou Qihui was complaining, when suddenly the door was kicked open!

Zhou Qihui was so frightened that he trembled all over. Just as he was about to scold someone, he heard the voice of his father Rui Guogong Zhou Qin.

"Bastard! Get out of here!"

Zhou Qihui had never seen his father so angry, he jumped out of the barrel and put on his robe.

"What's the matter, Dad? Why are you so angry!"

Zhou Qihui walked out from the inner room while talking, but before he could see Zhou Qin's distorted face due to anger, he was kicked down hard.

"Ah! What are you doing, father!"

"Shut up! Tell me, did you find someone to rob you of the post road department's cement?"

Zhou Qin's face was dark and he looked at him coldly.

"Ah? What, the cement was robbed?" Zhou Qihui was stunned. It was too hard to transport the cement. He only went there twice but didn't want to go. This time he went to the cement factory, he used an excuse to say that he The toothache was so terrible that I had to extract my tooth, so I asked for leave and ran out.So I don't know anything about the cement being robbed at all.

"You really didn't do it?" When Zhou Qin heard the news, his first reaction was that he, his idiot second son, must have done it again, so he aggressively came to teach him a lesson.

"Father, last time you told me not to embarrass myself everywhere and read a book at home. In the past two days, besides delivering cement to Zhang Yanjin a few times, I have also been to other places there!"

Zhou Qihui complained.

Duke Rui Guo is also a person who is used to seeing the world. He carefully observed the expression on Zhou Qihui's face and thought that his son is the most incompetent. No, it seems that it really has nothing to do with him!

But now, whoever listens to him is the most suspicious of him. First, he had a business conflict with Zhang Yanjin some time ago. Second, it was a coincidence that he sent this useless son to work in the post office.Now it's really shit on my head, and I can't wash it off even if I jump into the Yellow River.

"Get up! Now your colleague from the post office, that is, the boy from Chen Derang's family is waiting for you outside! He said that Zhang Yanjin wanted to ask you for questioning because of the cement being robbed! Remember, you must be as calm as you are now, anyway. It's none of your business, just deny it!"

Zhou Qin was afraid that Zhou Qihui would show timidity in front of Zhang Yanjin. If Zhang Yanjin grabbed him and insisted in front of the emperor that he had planned to sabotage his road construction for a long time, wouldn't it be hard to please the emperor because he had a problem with him?

"Okay... yes, Dad."

Zhou Qin listened to Zhou Qihui's "Father" which was particularly harsh. He has been a nobleman for several generations, and the person in the family is not an elegant person, but this son is crazy and incompetent. The headache is killing me!

"Go, don't conflict with Zhang Yanjin, you know?" After speaking, Zhou Qin warned again.

With Zhou Qin's instructions, Zhou Qihui walked towards the mansion in a panic, and before he reached the gate, he saw Chen Su leading a group of servants and workers blocking the door aggressively.

"Look! Zhou Qihui is here, let him accompany us to cement!"

"Catch this kid! Don't let him get away!"

All the way away, the people around Chen Su shouted when they saw Zhou Qihui, which made Zhou Qihui a little scared for a while.But after he thought about it, he hadn't snatched cement since, that thing was dirty and heavy, no matter how stupid he was, he wouldn't snatch that!Secondly, this is in my own home, what is there to be afraid of?My father is Rui Guogong, and my aunt is the current queen!

Thinking of this, Zhou Qihui was determined, walked to a group of people in a leisurely manner, and said unhurriedly: "Chen Su, I have already asked for leave, what are you doing in my house?"

If Zhou Qihui pretended to be in front of others, that's fine. The second son of Rui Guogong, the nephew of the current empress, is considered a first-class yamen in the capital, but Chen Su refused to accept Zhou Qihui. Father Chen Derang, Chen Derang was notoriously smelly and tough in the imperial court, and when he came to Chen Su's place, he carried forward this "excellent quality" even more.

"Zhou Qihui, do you want to hand over the cement quickly, and then go to Mr. Zhang to plead guilty, or do you want me to beat you into a pig's head, and then repeat the previous steps?"

Zhou Qihui was taken aback by Chen Su's aura, not to mention that although it was this matter, he was in his own territory now, so he couldn't be weak in any case.

"Cut, it's up to you? Chen Su, aren't you the little follower behind Zhang Yanjin? Do you know where this is? Duke Rui's Mansion, if you dare to touch me, don't even try to leave this mansion!"

But Zhou Qihui never expected that before he finished speaking, he saw Dou Da's fist hit him on the bridge of the nose in a daze.

"Ah. Chen Su, you are so brave, help me... ah!",

Zhang Yanjin looked at Zhou Qihui, who was wrapped in a gauze on the bridge of his nose, and Chen Su, who had several blood marks on his face, and couldn't laugh or cry for a while.

"Chen Su, didn't I tell you not to fight?" Zhang Yanjin glared at Chen Su, and then said to Zhou Qihui:

"Brother Zhou, are you okay? I apologize for Chen Su..."

"Don't be hypocritical, if your nose is broken, you'll know it's all right." Zhou Qihui recalled the scene at that time, really angry and hated. In his own home, Chen Su punched his nose, if not Taking advantage of the servant's fight, he fought back and scratched Chen Su's face a few times, and he suffered a big loss.

"Okay, I will report to Lord Ruiguo and Chen Shangshu about your fight, and give them an explanation, but now, I want to ask you one thing, Brother Zhou, about the robbery of the cement of our post road department, you know How many?"

As soon as Zhang Yanjin asked about cement, Zhou Qihui became nervous, because Zhou Qin told him to be plausible before going out, so he was very concerned.

Isn't it just not to dump Zhang Yanjin?

"So what if I know? Why should I tell you!"

If Zhou Qihui's father were here, he would definitely be pissed to death by him, isn't that called not revealing?This is called a confession!

Zhang Yanjin frowned when she heard this. He thought that this matter had nothing to do with Zhou Qihui. After all, with Zhou Qihui's IQ, he couldn't do such a big thing.

But he never expected that this kid would admit it as soon as he opened his mouth! ! !

"Do you really know where the cement is?"

Zhou Qihui was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Yanjin said immediately: "Come here! Bind Zhou Qihui for me! Send it to the Ministry of Punishment!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Wu Zhang Wu Er came to the room, and Zhou Qihui pushed him to the ground without saying a word.

"Ah! What are you doing! I am the second son of Duke Rui, the nephew of the current empress! Zhang Yanjin, you are so brave, let me go..."

Before Zhou Qihui struggled to finish shouting, Zhang Wu Zhang Wu Er had already turned him out of the room and headed all the way to the Ministry of Punishment.

The cement theft case has already alarmed the entire capital. Many people are worried, many people are watching Zhang Yanjin's jokes, but there are even more people hiding in the dark, secretly observing every move of various forces.

……

In the palace, Emperor Sheng Yuan frowned and looked at Zhang Yanjin who was kneeling on the ground.

"What's wrong with you, you can't handle such a little thing?"

Zhang Yanjin also looked ashamed. He thought that the road construction was just a matter of technology in retrospect, but he didn't expect such a vicious incident to occur halfway.

"You should cooperate with the criminal department to investigate this matter, but in any case, the road construction period must not be delayed. I don't care whether you retrieve the cement or transfer the goods from the cement factory. I want to see the palace before the frost falls. Fulu repaired!"

At this time, the emperor's face is also tired. This incident is obvious, and another person is making trouble maliciously. No matter who is behind the scenes, he does not want to see it. It happened near the capital, so don't think about it. It was made by people in the capital.He reckoned that someone might finally be unable to resist. He received a secret report that Zhang Yanjin's production of snow medicine was extremely high, and the price of salt in Zhongzhou had completely dropped. Even the salt controlled by the aristocratic family could not be sold now. go out.

Because the salt made by Zhang Yanjin is really good.

Why did Zhang Yanjin sell snow medicine and ignore the law of salt? It was because of his sacred heart. Therefore, it was useless to make trouble with salt. All he could do was target Zhang Yanjin.

But the family tree has deep roots, as long as it is a small fight, Emperor Sheng Yuan really doesn't want to get to the bottom of it, or in other words, fighting among them is the best balance for the emperor.This time he wanted money for the robbery, Emperor Sheng Yuan knew in his heart that it was nothing more than testing his attitude as an emperor, if he let it go, it meant that he didn't want to touch the family, and if he sent people directly, they would have more thoughts.

Are there bandits near the capital?

It's a joke!That's impossible, but it's just a private soldier raised by the gentry.Even if there are bandits, there are only three or five, so how dare they touch the things of the court.

After listening to the emperor's words, Zhang Yanjin already knew that she had not handled this matter properly. The emperor didn't care about who the mastermind of this matter was. One of his favorite ministers.

But when it comes to me, it's different. The mastermind obviously made this robbery of cement for me.The emperor doesn't want to find out the mastermind, he only cares about the progress of road construction, but if he doesn't find out the mastermind, even if he doesn't track down the lost cement this time, then there may be another time, next time.

If things go on like this, what is the majesty of his postmaster?

This is more embarrassing for him than ever before.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this humble minister will retire!"

Seeing that the emperor had closed his eyes, Zhang Yanjin tactfully retreated from the hall.

……

It was the first time that Zhang Yanjin was so entangled in leaving the hall, and now he was not sure whether he wanted to track down the culprit of the cement robbery or just turn a blind eye and close one eye.

"Master Zhang"